CONTENTS. Chapter I. Personification of Death, and other modes of representing it among the Ancients. — Same subject during the Middle Ages. — Erroneous notions respecting Death. — Monumental absurdities. — Allegorical pageant of the Dance of Death represented in early times by living persons in churches and cemeteries. — Some of these dances described. — Not unknown to the Ancients. — Introduction of the infernal, or dance of Macaber 1 Chapter II. Places where the Dance of Death was sculptured or depicted.— Usually accompanied by verses describing the several characters. — Other metrical compositions on the Dance 17 Chapter III. Macaber not a German or any other poet, but a non-entity. — Corruption and confusion respecting this word. — Etymological errors concerning it. — How connected with the Dance. — Trois mors et trois vifs. — Or^agna's painting in the Campo Santo at Pisa. — Its connection with the trois mors et trois vifs, as well as with the Macaber Dance. — Saint Macarius the real Macaber. — Paintings of this dance in various places. — At Minden ; Church-yard of the Innocents at Paris ; Dijon ; Basle ; Klingenthal ; Lubeck ; Leipsic ; Anneerg; Dresden; Erfurth ; Nuremberg; Berne; Lucerne; Amiens; Rouen; Fescamp; Blois; Strasburg; Berlin; Vienna; Holland; Italy; Spain 28 Chapter IV. Macaber Dance in England. — St. Paul's. — Salisbury. — Wortley-hall. — Hexham. — Croydon. — Tower of London. — Lines in Pierce Plowman's Vision supposed to refer to it 51 Chapter V. List of editions of the Macaber Dance. — Printed Horee that contain it. — Manuscript Horee. — Other Manuscripts in which it occurs. — Various articles with letterpress, not being single prints, but connected with it 55 Chapter VI. Hans Holbein's connection with the Dance of Death. — A dance of peasants at Basle. — Lyons edition of the Dance of Death, 1538. — Doubts as to any prior edition. — Dedication to the edition of 1538. — Mr. Ottley's opinion of it examined. — Artists supposed to have been connected with this work. — Holbein's name in none of the old editions. — Reperdius 78 Chapter VII. Holbein's Bible cuts. — Examination of the claim of Hans Lutzenberger as to the design or execution of the Lyons engravings of the Dance of Death. — Other works by him 94 Chapter VIII. List of several editions of the Lyons work on the Dance of Death with the mark of Lutzenberger. — Copies of them on wood. — Copies on copper by anonymous artists. — By Wenceslaus Hollar. — Other anonymous artists. — Nieuhoff Picard. — Rusting. — Mechel. — Crozat's drawings. — Deuchar. — Imitations of some of the subjects 103 Chapter IX. Further examination of Holbein's title. — Borbonius.— Biographical notice of Holbein. — Painting of a Dance of Death at Whitehall by him 138 Chapter X. Other Dances of Death 146 Chapter XI. Dances of Death, with such text only as describes the subjects 160 Chapter XII. Books in which the subject is occasionally introduced 168 Chapter XIII. Books of emblems and fables. — Frontispieces and title-pages in some degree connected with the Dance of Death 179 Chapter XIV. Single prints connected with the Dance of Death 188 Chapter XV, Inital or capital Letters with the Dance of Death 213 Chapter XVI. Paintings. — Drawings. — Miscellaneous 221 Chapter XVII. Trois vifs et trois morts. — Negro figure of Death. Danse aux Aveugles 228 Chapter XVIII. Errors of various writers who have introduced the subject of the Dance of Death 233 ERRATA. Page 7, line 25, for Boistuan read Boistuau. 7, ... 26, for Prodigeuses read Prodigieuseu 28, ... 14, read in Holland, &c. 32, ... 23, for Lamorensi read Zamorens 81, ... 4, for /ex read sex. 88, ... 10, after difficulty add ? 89, ... 21, after works add " 180, ... 23, for Typotia read Typotii. 197, ... 8, for Stradamus read Stradanus. Digitized by Google.

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